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The Message of the Old Testament [Book Discussion]
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<blockquote data-quote="HereIStand" data-source="post: 66632720" data-attributes="member: 154604"><p>Hope everyone is having a good weekend. This past weekend, my wife and I had a good visit with some of my family who are vacationing in the Pensacola area. </p><p></p><p>I wanted to share a few thoughts from Mark Dever's sermon on Song of Songs found in <em>The Message of the Old Testament</em>.</p><p></p><p>Dever begins the sermon by noting how our culture has distorted sex as God intended it. This corrupt view of sex has so completely saturated modern life that, as Dever notes, the greatest threat to Christianity can be said not to come from other religions, but rather from the increasingly uninhibited search for fulfilling our sexual passions in whatever form we please (p. 548).</p><p></p><p>In reading Song of Songs, Dever argues that the book should be read in its most straightforward sense as poetry between two lovers in a physically and emotionally fulfilled monogamous marriage. He contends that the book presents a picture of a man and wife who are able to enjoy a satisfying physical relationship because this relationship is in the context of a deep friendship and marital commitment. When physical love is divorced from this context, Dever notes, it becomes like water spilled on the ground, running in every direction, collecting nowhere, eventually dissipating and vanishing...[it] loses all the meaning it's supposed to have (p. 560).</p><p></p><p>Dever presents the message of Song of Songs as one standing in deep contrast to our culture's view of monogamous marriage as a limitation on on our lives. While, as Dever discusses, a misguided view of sex has come about recently, viewing sex in marriage as less fulfilling than sex outside of marriage has been a theme in literature long before the sexual revolution. </p><p></p><p>C. FitzSimons Allison argues in <em>The Cruelty of Heresy </em>that historically the most passionate type of physical love depicted in literature is not that between two married lovers but between two lovers having an extra-martial affair. This is shown (I think) in the physical love outside of marriage depicted in <em>Anna Karenina </em>and <em>The Red and the Black</em>. Song of Songs gives Christians a way to counter the idea that love in marriage (especially expressed physically) should be lacking in passion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereIStand, post: 66632720, member: 154604"] Hope everyone is having a good weekend. This past weekend, my wife and I had a good visit with some of my family who are vacationing in the Pensacola area. I wanted to share a few thoughts from Mark Dever's sermon on Song of Songs found in [I]The Message of the Old Testament[/I]. Dever begins the sermon by noting how our culture has distorted sex as God intended it. This corrupt view of sex has so completely saturated modern life that, as Dever notes, the greatest threat to Christianity can be said not to come from other religions, but rather from the increasingly uninhibited search for fulfilling our sexual passions in whatever form we please (p. 548). In reading Song of Songs, Dever argues that the book should be read in its most straightforward sense as poetry between two lovers in a physically and emotionally fulfilled monogamous marriage. He contends that the book presents a picture of a man and wife who are able to enjoy a satisfying physical relationship because this relationship is in the context of a deep friendship and marital commitment. When physical love is divorced from this context, Dever notes, it becomes like water spilled on the ground, running in every direction, collecting nowhere, eventually dissipating and vanishing...[it] loses all the meaning it's supposed to have (p. 560). Dever presents the message of Song of Songs as one standing in deep contrast to our culture's view of monogamous marriage as a limitation on on our lives. While, as Dever discusses, a misguided view of sex has come about recently, viewing sex in marriage as less fulfilling than sex outside of marriage has been a theme in literature long before the sexual revolution. C. FitzSimons Allison argues in [I]The Cruelty of Heresy [/I]that historically the most passionate type of physical love depicted in literature is not that between two married lovers but between two lovers having an extra-martial affair. This is shown (I think) in the physical love outside of marriage depicted in [I]Anna Karenina [/I]and [I]The Red and the Black[/I]. Song of Songs gives Christians a way to counter the idea that love in marriage (especially expressed physically) should be lacking in passion. [/QUOTE]
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